When trying to use Admin.users to iterate over the list of users this exception is thrown:

WIN32OLERuntimeError: failed to parse display name of moniker `WinNT://DAVID-PC/root'
    HRESULT error code:0x800708ac
      The group name could not be found.
        from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60/lib/sys/admin.rb:360:in `connect'
        from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60/lib/sys/admin.rb:360:in `get_groups'
        from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60/lib/sys/admin.rb:794:in `users'
        from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60/lib/sys/admin.rb:185:in `initialize'
        from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60/lib/sys/admin.rb:777:in `new'
        from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60/lib/sys/admin.rb:777:in `users'
        from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60/lib/sys/admin.rb:774:in `each'
        from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60/lib/sys/admin.rb:774:in `users'
        from (irb):34

The system is running Windows 7 and is connected to a samba based domain. The local system ("DAVID-PC") has
no user "root", but of course, there is one in the domain.

I can provide further testing if you need.

Date: 2010-05-21 11:35
Sender: David Schmitt

Hmm, good question. Primarily I don't even know whether the samba
domain is at
fault or not. I mean domain logons and so on do work. 

It would be e.g. interesting whether the `WinNT://DAVID-PC/root'
moniker is
generated by sys/admin (and why) or only retrieved from windows.

Date: 2010-05-20 20:01
Sender: Daniel Berger

Hm, what's the proper solution here? I'm not sure.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

Dan